do you use safety goggle?

[gsteinb88]

Always when soldering. Always when metal working. Always when woodworking. Not usually when cooking

 

[snowball_rx-7]

only when welding or cuting metal.
when powering up new boards i face the other direction.

 

[cantsleep]

actually, i never did wear one. but im going to now

just got one free from a friend who owns an auto-repair shop

 

[Yen]

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Originally Posted by AndrewFischer /img/forum/go_quote.gif If you keep doing that you will go blind.

Ok, for big job of course. But like some small things... I just turn my head...

That's stupid, I know.

 

[Fitz]

I voted no because I am too extreme to wear them.


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Originally Posted by splaz /img/forum/go_quote.gif Not that often, I don't mind wearing them if they're brand new and you can see out of them clearly but they don't tend to stay that way for long and to me it does get to a point where the fact that you can even see they're that hazy can almost be as dangerous as no eye protection. Depends what for as well, if soldering rarely, cutting a lot of things with sidecutters, probably as bit tend to go flying towards eyes fairly often. Power tools usually and also bring out a dust mask if cutting boards.

They make sidecutters with lead grabbers that keep the little bits from flying off in random directions.

 

[Uncle Erik]

Yeah, always. I sorta have to, since I wear glasses. But I always buy the toughest polycarbonate glasses and sometimes even put safety goggles over them.

Soldering may seem harmless, but every time I finish, I always find small spatters of flux on my lenses. I never notice it while soldering, but it always makes me glad I've got glasses on. Also part of the reason I don't wear contacts- I think of glasses as having eye protection on all of the time.

 

[splaz]

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Originally Posted by Yen /img/forum/go_quote.gif Ok, for big job of course. But like some small things... I just turn my head... That's stupid, I know.

You'll still get a tan though.

A friend of mine did some welding without gloves and ended up with sunburn up his arms.

 

[Zenja]

I do but rarely. If it seems like there's a reasonably dangerous chance of getting something in the eye, I do.

I don't get why people get bothered by flux so much. Maybe it's just the solder I'm working with but the fumes don't irritate me at all. Does it depend from person to person?

 

[Paragon]

There is nothing like the smell of burning flux in the morning..

I do wear Rx glasses full time but they are small enough to not be the best protection.
Lately, I seem to only wear safty glasses/goggles when I have the angle grinder out. Also, working under the car.. goggles are a good idea there. There are a few other occasions where I was hammering rock or there was a good chance of flying debris. Never have with the dremel or messing with electronics.
I of course use the welding goggles when welding.

 

[headphonejunkie]

You definitely need goggles when you are under the car. I had something go in my eye once while under a car. If it is a piece of metal you can really scratch your eye up.

 

[Paragon]

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Originally Posted by headphonejunkie /img/forum/go_quote.gif You definitely need goggles when you are under the car. I had something go in my eye once while under a car. If it is a piece of metal you can really scratch your eye up.

It is usually rust which is just so dandy in the eye. I was replacing the O2 sensors on my car and the best thing I did was use the goggles.

 

[RedBeardatXM]

I wear glasses (can't stand contacts and can't see w/o corrective lenses) they double as my safety glasses, and have saved me eye pain/dammage many times.

 

[stewtheking]

Working in the lab last year was a constant safety specs affair, so they paid for us all to get prescription safety specs. It's very handy to have something with that bit more protection than standard glasses. I remember making some cables with my Dad, standing in an odd place, and when he trimmed the wire, some fragments shot out at speed. I was bloody glad for them then I can tell you.

 

[splaz]

Under my car I always wear them now, I was under the car without them once and a little grain of dirt fell of the gear box and straight onto my eye.

It had a slight coating of old oil so it wasn't washing off so I had to very gently pick it up with the end of my finger.

That gave me a bit of a fright as it could have been something much worse, not that oil covered bits of dirt are good for your eyes anyway.

 

[kanamin]

I just bought a pair today. I was wearing only contacts (I have glasses too) yesterday while soldering, I feel bad about it now. This place will make me deaf, might as well keep my sight XDDD